The Democrat Party
who sees immigrants as part of their voting base. Their hope is to
bring in as many as possible, then grant amnesty so they can vote for
their candidates.

The Republican Party who also wants cheap labor help their business elements, especially those that are fighting unionizing efforts.

The Catholic Church
for whom these people represent the only real growth they had lately.
These are the people who fill their pews and have become their most
devout new members.

The Hispanic Community
in America, even those who are here legally, see this as a fast way to
bring friends and relatives here to join them. Virtually 100% of these
people want "immigration reform" which means amnesty, and this group is
our largest minority now.

I say these are powerful groups
because the vast majority of ordinary people, whenever they are polled,
say they want illegal immigration stopped. And despite decades of
debating this problem it just keeps getting worse. This tells us that
these special interests are getting their way in preventing the routine
enforcement of our law.

It is also important to remember that all
politicians, whether they are Republican or Democrats, are whores, who
will do anything they can to win votes. And they love having it both
ways, so they will go "on record" voting for tough immigration laws but
then never provide adequate funding to actually enforce the law
properly.

A good example of this is how they vote for a border fence,
then don't vote enough funds to actually build it.So while we
all generally agree that legal immigration is a good thing, and illegal
immigration is a bad thing, we can't agree on a solution to this
problem. One side refuses any type of amnesty for those already here,
and the other doesn't seem to want any sort of restrictions on
immigration.

So how can we fix this mess?

The
very first step is to reach a national consensus on what we actually
want. This means we might even have to have a national plebiscite on the
matter. We need to agree on how many immigrants we want admitted every
year. And once we do that, we need to adjust our immigration quotas
accordingly, then simply rigorously enforce the law that exists.The
key here is we must bring these people in legally and process them
properly. The current free for all system must end. Unless we enforce
our own laws, we will have no control over the number of immigrants
flooding our labor markets, whether we are admitting criminals, or
whether we are introducing diseases that were previously under control.
(if your ancestors came here through Ellis Island, then they were
probably screened for TB and Influenza.)

Personally, I feel our
immigration quotas are much too low. We actually need these people to
come here, and by so many of them being illegals we are making
assimilation more difficult for them. And that lack of assimilation is a
problem that will come back to haunt us. We could end up like France or
Germany in that regard, and that just isn't a good place to be.

We
need these people because our birthrate is too low. Our children have
children much later than we did, and they have fewer children. And
abortion has become widespread and commonplace. The net result of this
is that the ONLY real population growth we have is through immigration.

Without it we could have a negative population growth like Italy, Spain
or Greece. And the net result of negative population growth is
bankruptcy due to a shrinking tax base.

That last point is beyond
dispute. If you WANT all these generous government benefits to continue,
then you need a LARGER taxpaying workforce, and not a smaller one. This
is just simple math, and not politics.

The solution to this problem is:

Decide what you want to do

Raise or lower the immigration quotas accordingly

Enforce the Law rigorously

This solution is so simple that it probably will never happen. The problem doesn't exist because the issue is impossible to solve, it exists because we lack the will to fix it. Once we find the will, it can be fixed.And
no matter what you do, you really do have to make some sort of
provision for "those who are already here" because mass deportations
would just not be acceptable.

Politically, I am what you might
call an arch conservative, but I will promise you that America can not
"round them up and ship them out." It just will never happen. We have to
legalize those who are good citizens (which means almost all of them)
then deport those who aren't, then slam the door shut and really mean it
this time. We also need to raise our quotas to match what we actually
want to come in every year, and not to what the special interests want.

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